She Poems is a project inspired by poems written by women, created and produced in Africa by its new generation of female performing arts creators. A revolutionary project due to its gender and postcolonial vision that, since 2013, is positioning creative women from more than a dozen African countries as artistic role models on the international scene. So far, She Poems has produced 20 dance short films, 6 contemporary dance pieces and photographic series of great visual beauty and power. The creators of She Poems, daughters of the revolution and the independence of a continent, are unique and pioneering artists who, from their particular geographical, cultural and personal context, engage in individual and intimate creative processes to transform a literary score into body and audiovisual language, using performative codes that originate from their immediate daily environment, their heritage and their own creative impulse, revealing universal messages. She Poems questions the stereotypes that the western collective imaginary imposes on black-African female bodies, transgressing hegemonic audiovisual and stage narratives, to offer a unique artistic manifestation.

The project has been created with Estelle Foli and Anique Ayiboe (Togo); Nshoma Nkwabi, Khadija Nasibu, Shamila Salumu and Happiness Majige (Tanzania); Nesindano Namises and Trixie Munyama (Namibia); Betty Seise Bâgbo and Susane Hawi (Kenya); Suzana Tavares, Rosy Timas Tavares, Julia Dias and Sualia Lima (Cape Verde); Khoudia Touré, Marie Agnés Gomis, Rokhaya Thioune and Amie Mbye (Senegal-Gambia); Sena Atshugah (Ghana); Ada Umugwaneza, Pavrine Gicanda Kabalisa and Natasha Muzira (Rwanda); Nneka Celina Umeigbo and Irene Omoha (Nigeria); Balkissa Abdou Yarima, Aïcha Koraou and Rachida Amadou Bello (Niger); Phulusho Khwiyane and Phindile (South Africa); Michèle Ndjongui (Cameroon); Nilza Adolfo Matiquete and Mai Juli Machado (Mozambique); with the artistic direction of artist Aïda Colmenero Dïaz.